What is software switcher and what does it run on?
ASKED BY · Guy Cochran · SEATTLE, WA · 27 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:44:38
He uses vMix running on a Puget Systems custom rack-mounted computer; this represents one of the five largest budget items at approximately $27,000, with cameras being the other major expense.
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44:25me, it allowed me to quickly do that. And I just reach over, I got a touchscreen laptop and just and make that setting change. And that saved me $5,000. A pretty good deal there. Let's go to the next question. This one is from Guy Cochran in Seattle, Washington. What is the software switcher and what does it run on? Oh, what are you using to actually cut the show?
44:48So we use, for all our stuff, we use vMix. And there's the setup right there. um this is running on a uh puget systems uh custom rack um rack mounted computer it is uh it's a second puget system that we've purchased their stuff is great like it's just it's it's high end it's it's really nice stuff um it got expensive this year um seems like a lot of
45:23of equipment got expensive this last year. Yeah. And so we had bought, we had bought one last year and this one is the same price, but not as good as the one we bought last year. And so that was kind of like same money, less capability. Yeah. Yeah. Memory and stuff like that. Yeah. It's, it's, I haven't had any issues. It's been rock solid for what we've been doing with, you know,
45:45four channels of replay and, um, five total cameras bringing in graphics and everything. thing and it's it's it's been it's been rock solid but it was like that was a when we look at like the cost breakdown of what we spent for this football production the there's five big ticket items like four of them are cameras and one of them is vmix and right there word like word about
46:15about $27,000, right? So like that is most of the budget. It's just the cameras. Three grand for everything else. Yeah. Yeah. Ooh, that's that. Well, we've all, most of us have been there at some point or another. Let's go to the next question. And this one's kind of a follow-up on that last one from me, Cindy Droza in Erie, Colorado. I've heard that you use vMix in your sports broadcasts.
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